• FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    3rd Oct 2021

    https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/revealed-anti-oligarch-ukrainian-president-offshore-connections-volodymyr-zelenskiy

    On the campaign trail, Zelenskiy pledged to clean up Ukraine’s oligarch-dominated ruling system. And he railed against politicians such as the wealthy incumbent Petro Poroshenko who hid their assets offshore. The message worked. Zelenskiy won 73% of the vote and now sits in a cavernous office in the capital, Kyiv, decorated with gilded stucco ceilings. Last month, he held talks with Joe Biden in the Oval Office.

    The files reveal Zelenskiy participated in a sprawling network of offshore companies, co-owned with his longtime friends and TV business partners. They include Serhiy Shefir, who produced Zelensky’s hit shows, and Shefir’s older brother, Borys, who wrote the scripts. Another member of the consortium is Ivan Bakanov, a childhood friend. Bakanov was general director of Zelenskiy’s production studio, Kvartal 95.

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    Stupid Ukrainian, don’t they know that the way you’re supposed to deal with Supreme Court corruption is to ignore it and argue against any effort to impose an ethics standard on the court?

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      When yoir notoriously corrupt vasal state handles high-level corruption more seriously than you lol

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    Wonder if they’ll spin it as “Kremlin bribes”

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    Corruption is when you arrest the people responsible and out them under a criminal investigation.

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      …yes? That’s the proper way to handle corruption, but handling it properly after the fact does not meant the corruption does not exist.

      Imagine saying “murder is when you arrest the killer and put them on trial.”